A Meeting of Mines

The Special Committee on the Mineral & Coal Mining bill already completed deliberations. Crucial articles were bartered.

December 16, 2008

SONY Keraf beamed a smile Wednesday night last week. Approaching his colleagues in the room of the head of the House of Representatives’ Energy Commission, a politician from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) said he felt relief. “At long last,” he said.

Moments later, Minister of Energy & Mineral Resources Purnomo Yusgiantoro, who came together with Sony, initiated a discussion. “OK, let’s do it this way, we trade off

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